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Asean gets tough on the US over trade, but tiptoes around South China Sea build-up
7-May-2018 South China Morning Post
With Singapore as chair of the regional bloc this year, China has an advantage as the focus shifts from geopolitics to trade and investment.
EU open to ’limited’ US trade deal: Top official
6-May-2018 Indian Express
Malmstrom spoke just days after Washington granted Europe and other allies a one-month delay from imposing controversial tariffs on steel and aluminium, averting a trade war for now.
Canada loses bid to overturn NAFTA ruling on rebuffed N.S. quarry
3-May-2018 CBC
New Jersey company behind quarry proposal in Digby Neck claims damages of $443M US in lost profits.
Germany pushes EU trade deal with US in tariffs row as trade war looms
2-May-2018 Daily Express
Germany is pushing a watered-down version of the EU’s Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in a desperate last-ditch attempt to head of a looming trade war between the bloc and Donald Trump’s United States.
Charging into UK-US trade pact would be ‘catastrophic error’, warn MPs
2-May-2018 Euractiv
The UK would be making a “catastrophic error” if it charged into talks on a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States without setting out a ‘comprehensive strategy’ for life after the EU, MPs warned in a new report .
US eager to form trade deal with Japan ’at some point’: USTR
2-May-2018 The Mainichi
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Tuesday expressed eagerness to strike a free trade agreement with Japan "at some point."
Invenergy files international arbitration suit against Poland over wind projects
25-Apr-2018 Wind Power
The Invenergy group has submitted a notice of arbitration against Poland citing violations of Invenergy’s rights as a foreign investor and clear breaches of Poland’s obligations under the United States-Poland bilateral investment treaty.
Kimberly-Clark to sue Venezuela over 2016 expropriated factory
24-Apr-2018 Venezuelanalysis
US multinational Kimberly-Clark has filed a formal request to take Venezuela to court regarding the expropriation of its abandoned factory by the government of Nicolas Maduro in July 2016.
Japan says trade talks with US under new framework won’t start until June
24-Apr-2018 Reuters
Japan’s Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Tuesday that bilateral talks on trade under a new framework led by him and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer won’t begin until mid-June at the earliest.
China and South Korea seek free trade deal with Mercosur
24-Apr-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
China and South Korea are seeking to establish free trade agreements with Mercosur in a strategic response to Washington’s increasingly protectionist stance.
Korea, US made ’progress’ on details in revised FTA draft: minister
24-Apr-2018 The Korean Herald
South Korea and the United States have made progress on the final details of a revised free trade agreement before a formal signing after they agreed in principle on major issues last month, Seoul’s commerce minister said Monday.
‘China is just as important to South America as the US’: why Argentina is keen to start talks on free-trade agreement
23-Apr-2018 South China Morning Post
Argentina’s ambassador to Beijing defends China’s global ambitions as he signals Latin American common market is keen to strengthen economic ties.
Trump wants to bully Congress into accepting a new NAFTA
23-Apr-2018 Vox
His administration is considering pulling out of the agreement — just to force lawmakers to accept a new one.
‘US-China trade war to slow Asean’s economic progress’
23-Apr-2018 Business Mirror
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will not take the brewing trade conflict between the United States and China sitting down, as the regional bloc will urge the two economies to shun protectionism in favor of free trade at its 32nd summit this week.
EU plans to pitch trade bargain to Trump
19-Apr-2018 Wall Street Journal
Deal would feature lower tariffs on US cars, access to government bidding for Europe, and joint action on China
Trump pushes Abe for ’free, fair and reciprocal’ trade
19-Apr-2018 Nikkei
Japan seeks US return to TPP but president unlikely to bend on bilateral deal.
Taiwan hopes talks under TIFA will resume this year
19-Apr-2018 Focus Taiwan
A Taiwanese senior trade negotiator said Thursday that Taiwan hopes that talks under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) with the United States will resume this year.
Trump, in another apparent reversal, says trans-pacific trade pact has ‘too many contingencies’
18-Apr-2018 New York Times
After publicly flirting with having the United States rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President Trump appeared to rebuff the idea once and for all.
Japan PM Abe meeting Trump on trade, North Korea and TPP
18-Apr-2018 Action Forex
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is meeting Trump in Florida now. Facing domestic political turmoil, Abe is seeking to achieve something out of the summit. The first and foremost is the 232 steel and aluminum tariff of the US.
US tightens pressure on Japan for bilateral trade deal
17-Apr-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
The US is making a tougher push for Japan to begin talks on a bilateral free trade agreement, exploring demands on foreign exchange policy and exports, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares to visit the country this week.